Film Quotes

Making a film that's supposed to be fun to watch is really hard - that's the weird irony of it.

When you're on TV, you come into people's homes. In theater and film, they go to you - to the temple of the cinema or theater. And it's very different.

The psychiatrists examine you and ask you about your life and work, and then they decide whether your film can be shown or not. It's a horrible experience.

The whole year I was in LA I got into telemarketing and learned how to make money. Five years later that skill helped me make my first film.

An actor should never be larger than the film he's in.

Those involved in the program are interested in how to use photography, videos, the Internet, film, and anything related to communications and transmission of information in the most up-to-date modern ways.

Ron Howard is as good a person as you could want to work with on film. He never lost his cool. He's the most easygoing, lovely man, but he's got this enormous intelligence and a wonderful humanity.

I mean no film is beyond criticism, but I think we've made a very modest movie.

Some fellow from the Third World kept hammering for prizes for a Communist film which was rotten.

Class is often invisible in America in the movies, and usually not the subject of the film.

I don't make a division between an art film and commercial art.

It's hard not to get a big head in the film industry, there are people on a set paid to cater to your every need, from the minute you arrive until you go home. It's kind of strange, but not unpleasant.

Stax was rejoicing in the difference in who we are, and that's what you see in the film.

There has never been a female director who has won an Oscar. There has only been one woman who won at the Cannes Film Festival.

To try and raise a budget for a film that is strictly for adults and both strong and graphic in content is not easy, especially when there is pressure to spend serious money on good special effects.

I trained more than anybody ever in a golf film ever made - my swing is pretty hot.

I love a film where I get squished by two dumpsters or I fly through the air.

And that's another reason to make this movie: We can put plays on film now, at a relatively small cost, and they will reach an audience they would never have reached otherwise.

I actually don't see that strong of a connection between my background as a rock 'n roller and my early films. In a way I think your musical identity in film work is determined by the jobs that come your way.

Part of me always longed to do just one more film and see what Luke would be like now that he's on the level of Obi-Wan Kenobi, the student having become the master. But it was not meant to be.

Everyone I've worked with on any film will say I'm the hardest worker.

In an action film you act in the action. If it's a dramatic film you act in the drama.

I'm trying to broaden my range and get different characters in each film.

Most of my life, I've been on a film set. There isn't anything to learn, not learn, unlearn. It's just in me.

No press conference announcing a last film. I'd just steal away. Best way because, if by chance after two or three years something interesting comes up, I would not - like Sinatra - have to say: "Well, I've thought it over and decided to come back."

To me, length is an artificial and arbitrary factor in a film.

When I work on a film, I always tend to relate to the crew.

The beauty of doing film is that you construct whatever you do block by block and you can build something that will stay.

Feature-length film comedy is harder to pull off than the episodic sitcom - it doesn't have the same factory machinery up and running, teams of writers putting familiar characters through permutations - but that doesn't explain the widening quality gap that makes movie humor look like a genetic defective.

I'd never do a film that would hurt anyone's sentiments, be it Indian or not.